The church of San Paolo in Rho (Milan, 1978/90)

Abstract

The sinuous surfaces of the church of San Paolo offer a double-sided. Inland, respond to the articulation of the liturgical action, outwards are inserted into the weft green suburban landscape, at the boundary between the city and the rural context. Liturgical space and external environment provide therefore a strong dynamic relationship: a physical map (volumetric reciprocity between the concave and convex walls), but above all a visual and lightly correspondence, due to the polychrome glass windows that allow a dialectic always different between the marble volumes of liturgical poles, white surfaces that host and colored lights that bathes them.